Dear friends,
I have also discuss about gender with my closest friend: Mico Siahaan.
You know what, every time I start the conversation about gender, his face
and his neck will straight cramp:-)

All I want to share is the fact that women in every region in this earth
have suffered from mistreatment based on gender identity. According to a
book I read, biologically, human being is born as man or woman. So, we all
agree that physically man and woman are different.
Then he/ she is taught as a boy or a girl, so that one day they will grow
up and be a man or woman as what community hoped to be. That make
sociologically, he/she is 'constructed' with specific role and task.
Based on that social construction, human being get the gender identity
according to sexes. Human being come into a stereotype that people made,
and he/ she lost the identity as God have established.

I agree, we have to refere to the Bible, the ultimate truth, when we
discuss about gender. It will hinder us from useless argue and also lighten
our hearts. No one will hardly agree with bible, right? :-)

Paul said to people in Corinthians: I Cor 11:11-12,
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man
independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of
woman. But everything comes from God.
Also in Gal 3: 27-28.
for all of you who were babtized into Christ have clothed yourselves with
Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I love you all.